Previous India cricketer-turned observer Ravi Shastri feels the 2015 Cricket World Cup, to be mutually facilitated by Australia and New Zealand, will be an extremely open competition in view of the surfeit of constrained overs cricket, including T20 occasions like IPL.
"I think this is an exceptionally open World Cup. Australia have skiped back in a splendid manner. After the win in the Ashes arrangement, they won in South Africa. It may be Test cricket however that trust will skip into one day cricket too. So they will be an enormous risk to any resistance,"
Shastri said at a capacity associated with the uber cricket occasion and sorted out last nighttime by the Australian Trade Commission at the Cricket Club of India.
"This is going to be an uniformly matched World Cup on account of the volume of constrained overs cricket that is constantly played, the measure of T20 cricket that is, no doubt played. It has made batsmen more imaginative and intrepid. They have got another trap up their sleeves heading up constantly.
"That is the reason I feel this World Cup (booked from February 14-March 29, 2015) in Australia (and New Zealand) is going to be exceptionally energizing," said the previous India player, who won the Man of the Series grant in the Champion of Champions ODI competition held in Australia in 1985.
With respect to risks of holding the crown they won for the second time at home in 2011, Shastri felt that it relied on upon how rationally and physically fit the players would be in the wake of finishing a debilitating tour of Australia where they will play Tests and Odis against the hosts.
"Since the pitches will have a smidgen of skip, the grounds are huge, so you will need to think of new plans. You must be fit, solid. India will leave on a long tour of Australia (before the World Cup). It will be fascinating to perceive how fit the players will be, the way rationally new the players will be the point at which they choose to contend. Yet its going to be one heck of a World Cup," he said.
The previous player was of the sentiment that the IPL has increased the limits of backing for the Indian group.
"I think this is an exceptionally open World Cup. Australia have skiped back in a splendid manner. After the win in the Ashes arrangement, they won in South Africa. It may be Test cricket however that trust will skip into one day cricket too. So they will be an enormous risk to any resistance,"
Shastri said at a capacity associated with the uber cricket occasion and sorted out last nighttime by the Australian Trade Commission at the Cricket Club of India.
"This is going to be an uniformly matched World Cup on account of the volume of constrained overs cricket that is constantly played, the measure of T20 cricket that is, no doubt played. It has made batsmen more imaginative and intrepid. They have got another trap up their sleeves heading up constantly.
"That is the reason I feel this World Cup (booked from February 14-March 29, 2015) in Australia (and New Zealand) is going to be exceptionally energizing," said the previous India player, who won the Man of the Series grant in the Champion of Champions ODI competition held in Australia in 1985.
With respect to risks of holding the crown they won for the second time at home in 2011, Shastri felt that it relied on upon how rationally and physically fit the players would be in the wake of finishing a debilitating tour of Australia where they will play Tests and Odis against the hosts.
"Since the pitches will have a smidgen of skip, the grounds are huge, so you will need to think of new plans. You must be fit, solid. India will leave on a long tour of Australia (before the World Cup). It will be fascinating to perceive how fit the players will be, the way rationally new the players will be the point at which they choose to contend. Yet its going to be one heck of a World Cup," he said.
The previous player was of the sentiment that the IPL has increased the limits of backing for the Indian group.
